On the contrary, I am told on authority I cannot question that in some places this plague spot is rife among them.

In one case the evil had struck so wide and deep that the school had to be temporarily closed.

Here, again, the same lesson is emphasized, viz.: that whatever is the form of the school, however excellent the teacher, there is no substitute in the moral life for the home teaching and training of mothers and fathers.
No mother can read these statements unmoved--statements, remember, not my own, but made by men of the deepest and widest experience, and which, therefore, you are bound to weigh, ponder, and carefully consider.

I know that straight from your heart again comes the cry, "What can I do ?" I am inclined to answer this cry in one word, "Everything,"-- with God's help.
I And now let us enter into practical details.

We will begin with the outworks, and work our way inwards to the shrine.
First, as to the all-important choice of a school, should the boy's father decide, for reasons in which you concur to send him to a boarding-school.
As to how to ascertain the real state of a school there is, of course, considerable difficulty.